Alexander Turvelin

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION

For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Trenton, at Toulon, France, February 1881, and rescuing from drowning Augustus Ohlensen, coxswain.

Rank: Seaman
Conflicts: Interim 1871-1898
Organization: U.S. Navy

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